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MOUTH, the monthly reading series at ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
welcomes Shin Yu Pai & Rick Benjamin Friday, April 20 at 7 p.m.<br>
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<dd><font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2>SHIN YU PAI is the author of
The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz, 2006), Unnecessary Roughness
(xPress(ed), 2005), Equivalence, (La Alameda, 2003), and Ten Thousand
Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books, 1998). Three titles,
Sightings: Selected Writings 2000-2005 (1913 Press), Works on Paper
(Convivio Bookworks) and Nutritional Feed (Tupelo Press) are forthcoming.
Her poems are anthologized in America Zen: A Gathering of Poets (Bottom
Dog Press) and The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry
(Wisdom Publications).<br>
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<dd>RICK BENJAMIN is a poet and teacher who lives in Providence, Rhode
Island. He teaches poetry and community practice at Brown University and
RISD & also works in the non-profit sector at the Rhode Island
Service Alliance. His poems have appeared in Watershed,
Blackletter, the Journal of New Jersey Poets, the Patterson Poetry
Review, the Berkeley Poetry Review and Creature Comforts, among other
places. He is also the father of eleven year-old twin sons and a
ten year old daughter, who consistently creep into his poetry.<br>
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<dd><font face="Courier New, Courier">An open mic will start the
evening.<br>
<dd>For more information, please visit the website at
<a href="http://www.allgallery.org/" eudora="autourl">
www.allgallery.org</a> or call 203-671-5175.<br>
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<dd>Arts & Literature Laboratory ERECTOR SQUARE BUILDING 2, 319 PECK
STREET, NEW HAVEN, CT<br>
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